Chapter 340 - A Blood Practitioner
Chapter 340 A Blood Practitioner
The evening light was dim, and the lanky man in the black robe standing under the tree seemed creepy and weird.
“Who are you?”
Jin Ying clutched Su Li’s lapel tightly and gathered her courage to ask.
As she finished, fell the black robe which wrapped the man’s face. A slightly pale face came to view. The face was so common that no one would notice him if he stood in the crowd.
After the black robe fell, a sickeningly faint bloody pneuma spread out around him. Once the emerald green tree branches contacted this pneuma, they immediately tended to wither.
Su Li gazed.
A blood practitioner, a blood practitioner was in the sixth hurdle of Zhuji Realm. How could there be such an evil and sly practitioner in Huajian Sect?
When Jin Ying saw those withered flowers and plants, her face turned pale with fear. She pulled Su Li with a trembling voice, “It’s so scary. Let’s escape. There’s a window in the back of the house. We… ah!!!”
Before Jin Ying could finish her sentence, the man standing under the tree at the entrance suddenly moved. In a few leaps, he came closer to her and slapped her unconscious with one hand.
“She was too loud, and I don’t like noisy kids.”
His voice was as hoarse and unpleasant as a nail rubbing over a rusty copper surface.
It became quiet in the room, and the man’s bloodshot eyes turned to Su Li, who stayed calm. He said with interest, “You seem to be not afraid of me, don’t you?”
Su Li smiled faintly, and her voice was calm, “Why should I be afraid of you?”
The man was stunned, and more curiosity could be seen in his eyes, “Interesting, for a mortal girl, who has not yet entered the cultivation circle, does not show the slightest respect for the cultivation. I’ve never seen this before, and you are the first.”
“Originally, the one who sent me the messages told me to eliminate you, directly. But now, I’ve changed my mind.”
Su Li frowned, “What’s in your mind?”
The man laughed in a low voice, and stretched his hand toward Jin Ying, who was fainting on the ground, “Kill her! As soon as you kill her, I’ll take you as a disciple and take you away from Huajian Sect. I will even teach you all the things I’ve learned so that you’ll be as free as me!”
After saying that, he looked at Su Li with expectation and he almost foresaw how excited and ecstatic she would be. Giving somebody hope and letting him die in desperation was his favorite thing to do.
But the fact did not go in the direction he wished.
Su Li tickled her lips slightly, and her calm gaze turned to cynicism, “You, a blood practitioner in Zhuji Realm, how dare you say that you are free and unfettered in the cultivation circle?”
When she uttered these words, the man’s face changed wildly, and finally realized Su Li’s unusualness. He subconsciously wanted to pull away. Then he realized that a small, white and thin hand was on his shoulder.
Boom!!
The extremely heavy power burst in a steep way, as if Mount Tai fell on him. As a result, the man’s shoulder collapsed, and all his five viscera and six bowels were shattered.
“… You!”
The man’s eyes were wide open, and he spat out a mouthful of blood. He couldn’t understand why this soft and harmless girl had such a horrible strength, and she was even more decisive and cold-blooded than him, just like an evil practitioner.
“Mercy!”
Sensing that the huge force on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier, the man struggled. He didn’t think anything else now but just wanted to survive from Su Li.
Su Li narrowed her eyes slightly and suddenly laughed, “Good!”
The man was delighted. But Sue Li raised her left hand and, in his devastating feeling, shot her palm on the top of his skull.
“Ah! You explicitly said…”
The man, who was bleeding in both eyes, extruded those four words. With his head drooping, he could no longer speak again.
Su Li slowly retracted her hand and murmured, “As for the look in your eyes, I’ve seen much. However, I’m not in the habit of explaining myself to the living.”
Looking at Jin Ying, who was still in a coma, Su Li waved her hand to close the wooden door, carried Jin Ying back to the bed, and reached out to hit her Heitian Point, making her sleep even deeper.
After doing this, Su Li returned to the man’s corpse, removed his universe bag around his waist, and fell into meditations.
Although it was the first time that she had killed someone since reincarnation, her memory was still there after all. She had long been numb to life and death, and looking at the bloody corpse in front of her, she did not have emotional fluctuations.
“I have not yet recovered my cultivation to Zhuji Realm and can’t use soul searching skill. However, I can guess that the first apprentice Yue Lin must be behind this person, so, there is no need to waste my physical strength.”
With this in mind, Su Li frowned, wondering what should she do with this man’s body?
If it were an ordinary practitioner, she would handle the corpse with a fire, but he was a blood practitioner. For a blood practitioner in Zhuji Realm, who had devoured the essence and blood of at least tens of thousands of people, his pneuma and blood was so thick that it would not disperse easily. After his death, if the pneuma and blood spread, even the universe bag would not be able to stop it. It might even become toxic and polluted the entire Danxia Mount.
If she burned the corpse with fire, the pneuma and blood would evaporate faster. For now, she didn’t want to expose herself, so, she couldn’t allow one corpse affected the whole matter.
Looking at the night sky outside, Su Li wrapped the body with the black robe. She raised it with one hand and pushed the door to find a remote place to dispose of it. But at this moment, a rainbow light flashed in the sky and fell into the hall on the peak of Danxia Mount.
Su Li immediately stopped, with a stern expression.
Did Wang Yu come back?
If she went out to dispose of the corpse of the blood practitioner at this moment, the disturbance would be detected by Wang Yu. She had to find another way!
Perhaps sensing Su Li’s thoughts, Black Lotus Ring suddenly emerged on its own and slowly rotated up. This time, it did not transmit any more useful information to Su Li, instead, it sent a gust of suction to the corpse wrapped by the black cloth.
Su Li was slightly stunned and sensed a faint inquiry from Black Lotus Ring as if it was asking for her opinion.
“You can dispose of this corpse?”
Su Li frowned and sent out a thought. Black Lotus Ring rotated even more cheerfully, and the suction power grew with it as if it followed Su Li’s mind.
“Well, let me see how you solve the problem.”
As soon as Su Li’s hand loosened, the black cloth immediately fell to reveal the body, leaving it to Black Lotus Ring.
Almost instantly, the suction power of Black Lotus Ring increased countless times, but it only worked on the corpse, and Su Li was not affected at all. Then she saw the man’s body seemed to be shred into blood mists by an enormous power, and the blood mist was sucked in by Black Lotus Ring.
After just a few short breaths, there was only a pile of white powder left on the ground. And Su Li waved her hand, and all of it dispersed. Except for the black robe, there was no longer anything that could prove that the blood practitioner had ever existed.
Su Li was amazed at the method of Black Lotus Ring when suddenly she felt heat from her ring finger. And she looked down and found that Black Lotus Ring, which was originally black, had become blood-red. And a tear-shaped blood-red crystal stone in the middle of the lotus mark was slowly getting bigger.
Waiting until the blood-red crystal had grown to the size of a fist, the heat from Black Lotus Ring faded.
Su Li plucked off the blood-red crystal stone in disbelief and carefully studied it.
“I’ve never seen this kind of extremely pure blood essence before. If it were refined to a Duanxue Elixir, how powerful it would be?”
Su Li’s eyes were gleaming with light. Refined by Reincarnation Mirror, her physical body in this life was far stronger than that of the same period in her previous life. Though she was in Lianqi Realm, whether her strength or her physical body were less powerful than any demon in Zhuji Realm.
“My physical body has been improved to a bottleneck. It is easy to refine Duanxue Elixir and obtain adjuvant medicine and the only difficulty is to find Xuerong Grass. When my cultivation is restored more, I can leave Huajian Sect to look for it…”
With this in mind, Su Li put the black robe on the ground into the universe bag and cleaned up the woodshed. Then she took Jin Ying back to her previous residence.
Seeing that Jin Ying would not wake up for a short time, Su Li sat on the edge of her bed and took out the universe bag. She put her psychic awareness into it, and a small space of ten cubic meters emerged in her awareness sea.
The man was a casual practitioner, and the items were piled up in the corner of the space. Su Li glanced over. Besides five hundred low-grade spiritual stones and a dozen middle-grade spiritual stones, she did not find any particularly valuable treasures, and most of them were refined blood plasma.
Su Li could tell from the slightest contact that these were all baby blood that violated ethics. She frowned slightly and then shook her head and laughed bitterly.
It was incomparable to what she had done in the illusion. Even though everything in the illusion was unreal, her memory couldn’t be faked. The integrity she had adhered to had been removed in the illusion, and what remained was the conscience of a human being.
After taking out all the blood plasma and burning them one by one, Su Li chanted the scripture to eliminate the grievances, and the universe bag was half empty. There were only some inferior healing elixirs left, which Su Li lost interest after looking at it. If she had proper medicinal herbs, she could make much better elixirs than these.
It was almost dawn. As Su Li’s psychic awareness was about to exit the universe bag and cultivate for a few moments, she inadvertently glanced at her wrist.
The ring of Reincarnation Mirror was trembling!
It was just that the trembling was too tiny to be noticed if she hadn’t looked at it.
“Could there be anything in the universe bag that has affected it?”
Su Li hesitated for a moment. She took off the mirror ring and slowly affixed it to the universe bag. In her previous life, Reincarnation Mirror, as the oldest treasure in the world, could not be loaded into a universe ring, which was much advanced, let alone a common universe bag.
But now, as Su Li only saw a flash of light, the mirror ring instantly disappeared. It appeared in the spiritual stones which she had not yet extract from the universe bag.
“It is so weak. What exactly happened to it a thousand years ago?”
Su Li’s eyes narrowed slightly. Without waiting for her to think carefully, there was a new change in the universe bag.
In the space of the universe bag, the ring of Reincarnation Mirror floated in the nothingness and trembled slightly. Wisps of dust were pulled out from the pile of debris and injected into the ring.
“This dust…”
Su Li’s psychic awareness intercepted a slice to observe it, but it was just ordinary dust. Why would the ring of Reincarnation Mirror absorb it?
Was it…
Su Li thought for a moment, and she had a surmise.
She stared closely at the ring of Reincarnation Mirror, released the intercepted “dust.”, and waited silently. Just after the ring absorbed the last dust, a new change appeared in the ring of Reincarnation Mirror.